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PAX Prime 2010: Warren Spector on Game Culture in the Mainstream

posterbot — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:55:00 +0000

Deus Ex and Disney Epic Mickey creator Warren Spector opened PAX Prime in Seattle, an empowering Gamasutra-attended keynote today, with a call for gamers to look beyond the celebration of geekdom so that the industry as a whole can move toward the mainstream. After years of facing insecurity and rejection while striving for mainstream acceptance, Spector suggested that game culture has finally reached a ‘Golden Age’, noting: “Every medium that has lasted has gone through …

Red 5 Studios Announces Free-to-Play MMO Firefall

posterbot — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:42:00 +0000

Irvine, CA-based Red 5 Studios has announced its long-awaited first title at the Penny Arcade Expo today — a free to play team-based action shooter PC MMO called Firefall [gameplay video], slated for a 2011 release. The title has been in production in various incarnations for a number of years, but looked as if it might not see the light of day when the developer laid off 30 employees early this year. However, Chinese MMO …

Square Enix Publishing Ankama’s Wakfu In North America

posterbot — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:32:00 +0000

Square Enix announced that it is releasing Wakfu, an upcoming free-to-play tactical MMORPG from French developer and publisher Ankama Games (Dofus series), to North America. Wakfu features an anime-style world, 12 character classes (each with a total of 25 spells), customizable characters, and a turn-based, tactical combat system. Players actions also affect the game’s environments, in that killing a particular monster or mining an ore can prevent that creature/resource from appearing again. In France, Ankama’s …

Telltale Games Announces Poker Night at The Inventory

posterbot — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:05:00 +0000

Sam & Max episodic game developer Telltale Games has followed up on the teaser it posted to Gametrailers last week with an announcement of a brand new title called Poker Night at The Inventory. The game will feature “a new style of poker” and feature high profile characters from games and comics, including Homestar Runner’s Strong Bad, Penny Arcade’s Tycho, Sam & Max’s Max and The Heavy from Team Fortress 2. Telltale CEO Dan Connors …

Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath Gets a Remake On PlayStation 3

posterbot — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:27:00 +0000

It’s been six years since the release of a new game in the Oddworld franchise, but thanks to UK-based developer Just Add Water, a remake of the EA-published Xbox title Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath is coming to PlayStation 3 next year. Oddworld founders Lorne Lanning and Sherry McKenna are working closely with Just Add Water to create the remake, which will feature remastered dialogue, 720p visuals and PlayStation Move support. Additional bonus materials will be packed …

Top iPad Game Apps: Medieval HD, Puzzle Agent Debut as Big Sellers

posterbot — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:02:00 +0000

[Sister site FingerGaming rounds up the week's most popular paid and free iPad gaming applications on the App Store as of today, with Brisk Mobile's Medieval HD and Telltale Games' Puzzle Agent HD charting among the App Store's biggest-selling titles.] This week’s top paid titles are: 1. Angry Birds HD ($4.99) 2. Medieval HD ($2.99) 3. Pinball HD ($0.99) 4. Zombie Infection HD ($0.99) 5. Sudoku 2 HD Pro ($2.99) 6. Fruit Ninja HD ($4.99) …

Jagex Suffers Setback In RuneScape Bot Lawsuit

posterbot — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:34:00 +0000

RuneScape developer Jagex suffered a setback in its suit against bot maker Impulse Software, as a U.S. court denied its request for a preliminary injunction prevent the sale and use of Impulse’s iBot. Similar to many other third-party bots created for massively multiplayer online games, Impulse’s iBot software automatically completes tasks and levels up RuneScape characters without users needing to play the game themselves — a practice prohibited by most MMO publishers as cheating. Jagex, …

Atlus Will Continue To Publish Games After Index Holdings Merger

posterbot — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:12:00 +0000

After an announcement earlier in the week that RPG publisher Atlus (Persona) had been dissolved by parent company Index Holdings, Atlus U.S.A. president Shinichi Suzuki has made an official statement which reassures fans the company will still create and publish games in the future. The statement reads, “Recent news out of Japan that Index Holdings, the parent company of Atlus Co., Ltd. (and its wholly-owned private subsidiary Atlus U.S.A, Inc.), would be merging the Atlus …

Round-Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week Of September 3

posterbot — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:17:00 +0000

In a diverse week for new job postings, Gamasutra’s jobs board plays host to roles across the world and in every major discipline, including opportunities at Blizzard, Warner Bros. and many more. Each position posted by employers will appear on the main Gamasutra job board, and appear in the site’s daily and weekly newsletters, reaching our readers directly. It will also be cross-posted for free across its network of submarket sites, which includes content sites …

PSP Sales Double On Monster Hunter Spinoff Release In Japan

posterbot — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:05:00 +0000

Sales of Sony’s PSP doubled week-on-week in Japan on the release of the chart-topping Capcom PSP game Monster Hunter Diary: Poka Poka Ailu Village, which also launched in a bundle. For the week ended August 29, the PSP line — including the PSP-3000 and PSP Go — sold 55,948 units, up from the previous week’s 28,185. This week, the PSP-3000 individual sold 55,112 units, while the disc drive-less PSP Go sold 836. The jump in …